Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt will be around a little more over the next two months as their new movie “By The Sea” gets ready to hit theaters in December. Angelina and Brad and their six kids, Maddox, Zahara, Shiloh, Pax, Vivienne, and Knox, were photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue’s November issue and Angelina shared a bit about her new movie and about her family.
Snippets from the interview are below – and check out the stunning photos down in the gallery!
On how By The Sea isn’t about her and Brad: “It’s not autobiographical. Brad and I have our issues, but if the characters’ were even remotely close to our problems we couldn’t have made the film.”
On the procedures she got after finding out she has that BRCA1 gene: “I feel grounded as a woman. I know others do too. Both of the women in my family, my mother and my grandmother”—who also succumbed to ovarian cancer—“started dying in their 40s. I’m 40. I can’t wait to hit 50 and know I made it.”
On spending time with her kids: “I schedule individual time with each of the kids like a crazy person. I know what I’m doing with my boys tonight”—her friend Mariane Pearl, whom she played in A Mighty Heart, is on her way over with her son, Adam. They’ll go out and then “play board games all night.”
On retiring from acting one day: “What a crazy job! I’m almost enjoying it more now that I see it as something I’ve been fortunate to be part of. Maybe in the next few years I’ll finish being in front of the camera. I’ll be happier behind it. I’m happy to be home. I want to really focus on my children, doing the best I can to guide and protect them before they are out of the house. These are their most important years.”
On keeping their kids’ heritage alive and visiting each other’s birth countries: “We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born. The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them. But I want them to be just as interested in the history of their sisters’ countries and Mommy’s country so we don’t start dividing. Instead of taking Z on a special trip”—ten-year-old Zahara was adopted from Ethiopia in 2005—“we all go to Africa and we have a great time.”
